How to screenshot Instagram story without the user knowing

If you are someone who occasionally stalks people on their Instagram accounts and takes screenshots of the Instagram story they post on their profiles, then we have got a bad news for you. The latest update of the Instagram mobile and the web app will now notify the users whenever someone takes screenshot of their stories.

Along with the list of people who have viewed their stories, Instagram users will now get a dotted circle icon next to their name indicating that they have taken a screenshot of their story. Just like the stories feature itself, Instagram has borrowed this screenshot alert feature also from its long time rival Snapchat.

While a lot of users have already spotted this new feature on their app, it will take a little longer before it reaches to the millions of users of Instagram. There is no denying in the fact that this new screenshot notification feature would improve the privacy of the users and also reduce the number of screenshots taken, but people are already searching for workarounds to take screenshots without alerting the user.

If you have landed on this article, then it means that you are also one among them and are looking for a way to take screenshot of someone’s Instagram story without having to face the embarrassment of them knowing that you did so. Don’t worry we have got multiple solutions for you and you can choose whichever one you prefer.

How to screenshot Instagram story without the user knowing

Solution 1: For smartphone users

This might probably be the simplest solution and it could be used by both Android and iOS smartphone users of the Instagram app.

Just open the app and then load the Instagram story of the users whose story you want to take a screenshot of.

Now switch off the WiFi in your phone and then switch on the airplane mode. By doing this the Instagram app won’t be able to send any data to the server which means it won’t record when you take a screenshot of someone’s Instagram story.

You can now open the story of the person you wanted to take screenshot and take it, Instagram will not send the alert to the user as you are doing this in offline mode. But this method could be used only for a single user as all the stories might not load in the airplane mode.

Solution 2: For PC / Web users

Unlike the first one, this solution is solely based on the desktop and web app of Instagram. If you don’t want to go through the process of getting into airplane mode and entering offline mode, then you can follow this solution.

Just open your web browser and go to instagram.com or download the Instagram web app and login to your profile. You can now find all the stories of the people you follow or you can even search for particular profiles.

Once you got the story of the user you want to screenshot, just tap the print screen button on your keyboard and a screenshot of the story will be taken without alerting the user. You can then paste and save the screenshot wherever you want on your computer.

Solution 3: For saving video stories

If you don’t want to take a screenshot and feel like it is too much of an work holding the story, going offline or using the print screen command and saving it elsewhere on your computer, then this solution is for you.

Using this method you can directly save any person’s Instagram story to your device, provided they have set their profile privacy as public. All you have to do is, go to https://storiesig.com and then enter the name of the profile whose story you want to save.

The website will now display all the stories that have been posted in the past 24 hours from that profile. You can select the story you want to download and save it to your device. This method is also ideal if you want to save video based stories to your device.

Solution 4: For iOS and Jailbreaked devices

If you own an iOS device, then you can easily save Instagram stories to your device by downloading a free third party app called Story reposter which works almost the same way as the Storiesig website does.

If your device is Jailbroken, then you could get additional features like viewing stories of users anonymously by making use of apps called Rocket for Instagram and similar ones.

While there are multiple solutions to anonymously take screenshots of user stories in Instagram as of now, Instagram might soon bring a workaround to prevent all these as it concerns the privacy of its millions of users.

However, till then you can stalk whoever you want without them knowing with these simple tricks! If you have any other effective solution to take screenshot of stories without alerting the users in Instagram, feel free to let us know in the comments below.